Personality Types and Literary Intelligence and Literary Translation

This study draws attentions to the psychometric aspects of translation. It first investigates the relationship between personality types and literary translation. Second, it examines the relationship between literary intelligence and literary translation in non-translation students to find if literary intelligence is so effective whose owners don't need translation knowledge, because the relationship has been found positive in translation students. It also compares literature and translation students in case of literary translation. Beside the main results, it obtains side results whose explanation makes more researches deserved.

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Mojtaba Javandoust has his M.A in translation studies from Imam Reza International University. This book is totally based on his M.A dissertation, from which he has also published two articles and the third is being worked on. Being interested in them, he prefers to work on delicate, difficult and long-term interdisciplinary projects.